The names are the same, only the shirts are different...

As is always the case at the World Cup, there comes that moment when you'll be staring vacantly at the screen during Venezuela v Qatar or some such nonsense and you'll hear a player's name mentioned that rings distant bells of familiarity.

Yes, the World Cup gives you the chance to see those players that grace the football pitches of Great Britain every weekend playing for the country of their birth. Or their mother's birth. Or their mother's father's birth. Or somewhere they once had to write a school essay about when they were eleven.

But where once upon a time the British game was played by British players, nowadays it's all a bit more international, so to help you realise which parts of the world your favourite players represent, here's a list of who you may well be seeing during the World Cup in Germany: